I was told by a friend that Super Glue was actually made for the military. It was suppose to be used for quick fix ups for cuts caused during battle. The super glue was actually used to seal up the cuts till they could be attended to. Now I was a Marine for 8 years and never heard of such a thing.
Could this be an Urban Legend or Myth as I think it is? I mean the concept is right on track, but knowing how hard it is to get the stuff off of you, what about the accidental spillage in the heat of battle?
Well, I know that you can use regular superglue on minor cuts if you don’t have any medical-grade skin adhesive on hand. We’ve done it a few times for declaws when we were out of nexaband, and we routinely use superglue to glue shut eyes on animals that die or get euthanized (it’s cheaper than Nexaband).
It doesn’t seem very practical in a battle situation, really. For one thing, if the wound is little enough for superglue to do you any good, it’s small enough to wait entirely. For another thing, you can’t exactly call a timeout while you glue up your cuts, can you? The gluing your fingers together thing isn’t too much of a problem, provided you don’t use tons and tons of glue. Fingers that are lightly glued together, or heavily glued over a small area can just be ripped apart if you’re fairly tough. Also, if you don’t press your fingers together the whole drying time, you won’t stick that badly. Trust me.
Apparently “superglue surgical stitches” were an early patent:
“Super Glue was invented by my cousin, Dr. Harry Coover…” http://ozreport.com/toc.php?7.118
Oh, that is very interesting! I may have meant that the military had it invented for this purpose! But it may have been used by the men and woman in the military as an every day usage for minor cuts. Until later, it was found to be used for more household and commercial uses.
Thanx for the info though, I will keep this in mind next time I declaw my cats!
http://www.emedicine.com/ent/topic375.htm
"The cyanoacrylates first were synthesized in 1949 by Airdis. Coover et al described their adhesive properties and suggested their possible use for surgical adhesives. In the early 1960s, various surgical applications were investigated for these adhesives. "
http://www.med.nyu.edu/ERWeb/residency/ETHICON_Wound_Closure_Manual.pdf
“DERMABOND Topical Skin Adhesive (2-Octyl Cyanoacrylate), a tissue adhesive for skin closure, is intended for topical application only to hold closed easily approximated skin edges of wounds from surgical incisions, including punctures from minimally invasive surgery, and simple, thoroughly cleansed trauma-induced lacerations. DERMABOND adhesive can replace suture on virtually all facial and appropriate extremity and torso wounds. However, it should not be used across areas of increased skin tension, such as knuckles, elbows, or knees, unless the joint is immobilized during the skin healing period. The use of this topical skin adhesive has produced cosmetic results superior to those of suturing while providing patients a fast and relatively painless closure.18,19(See Chapter 5, Other Surgical Products, for more information on DERMABOND adhesive.)”